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UK
/fəɡˈɪvnəs/
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[ US /fɝˈɡɪvnəs, fɔɹˈɡɪvnəs/ ]
[ US /fɝˈɡɪvnəs, fɔɹˈɡɪvnəs/ ]
NOUN
- the act of excusing a mistake or offense
- compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive
How To Use forgiveness In A Sentence
- He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
- Theologian Keri Harvey writes, “Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and ac ceptance by God through my obedience to God.” God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
- I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness.
- In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
- It was a terrible sin, she said: which means we've got to pray for forgiveness.
- In his message he begs forgiveness. The Sun
- She liked the way she had not openly offered reconciliation yet had managed to imply that forgiveness would not be unreasonably withheld.
- I thought about Clinton and how weak of attempt he made when asking for forgiveness and how he was not forthright from the get go in regards to his ex marital affair. Archive 2008-03-01
- The architect, however, takes the tool out of the artisan's hand and although he remonstrates with him for his clumsiness, begins to enact forgiveness.
- Not yet, however, was the power of the keys instituted, which is derived from Christ's Passion, and consequently it was not yet ordained that a man should grieve for his sin, with the purpose of submitting himself by confession and satisfaction to the keys of the Church, in the hope of receiving forgiveness through the power of Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition